Frequently Asked Questions

• What does Wolf Mountain do?
• What makes you different from other suppliers?
• Do you sell products for gardens, grow boxes and/or flower beds?
• What product should I use in my grass areas?
• Do you sell topsoil or rock?
• Do you sell sawdust?
• Do you sell bark?
• Do you sell colored ground cover?
• Do you offer compost products?
• Do you offer professional grow mixes?
• Where does your wood and bark come from?
• How much is 3 million cubic yards?
• Who do you sell to?
• Can I get samples?
• I'm a (fill in this space), can and how do I buy from you?
• How much can a pickup truck hold?
• How many yards of bulk material do I need for my project?
• Do you deliver?

Question: What does Wolf Mountain do?
Answer: Wolf Mountain Products provides a broad range of wood and bark-based soil enhancements, bark mixes, landscape ground cover products, playground chips, professional grow mixes, compost products, sawdust, wood shavings, among other things. These are offered in three brands; Designer Soils® which has a wide range of retail and professional products, firsTurf® which provides a range of specialty liquid fertilizer products and the company's namesake, Wolf Mountain Products. These various products are used in varied ways ranging from potting or grow mixes, garden mixes, topdressing products for turf, animal bedding (wood shavings), walk-on bark mixes and ground covers for landscape and shrub areas. We sell products in bulk and in various bag sizes.

Question: What makes you different from other suppliers?
Answer: Our soil amendment products are primarily based on a large quantity of very old wood and bark or composted bark. This bark is located in three primary locations: south-central Utah, northern Arizona and northern New Mexico. This old wood and bark has some unique properties: 1) it is very dry and thus with tests done by outside laboratories has been shown to have high water retention, as high as almost 30%, 2) it has a low pH which is good for soils commonly found in the West in that this neutralizes the salt found in the soils, 3) since it is old it breaks down quickly adding beneficial organic material to soils while not stealing nitrogen from the soil in the process.

Our ground cover products are composed of the finest materials from lumber mills. Whereas other ground cover providers “extend” their products by adding construction waste or destroyed pallets, we do not. Our products are clean and high quality wood and bark products.

Given that we own a large quantity of wood and bark (15+ years worth) we can be counted on for consistent supply and consistency in products.

Question: Do you sell products for gardens, grow boxes and/or flower beds?
Answer: Yes, many. We have products that can be directly grown in and products that are ideal for mixing into the soils to add aeration, water retention, water infiltration and for adding organic material to the soils. We offer products that conform to the Square Foot Gardening specification and some very good composts and other garden mixes. Please see our Designer Soils® for our various offerings.

We also soil conditioners or what some call soil softeners. These products are 3/8” or smaller or a 1/8" or smaller, aged wood and bark humus that is mixed into soils to loosen the soils.

Question: What product should I use in my grass areas?
Answer: We sell a product ideal for your grass areas. We offer an 1/8” or smaller product, very consistent in size and texture and very dry with high water retention properties. It is exceptionally dry and in independent tests have been shown to have water retention properties. This means that you can water substantially less with the same water benefit. The water retained remains available to the grass or other plant material. The product also adds organic matter to the soil that loosen the soils and increase aeration and water filtration into the root system of the grass creating a healthier plant environment. This product is applied as a topdressing, meaning that you spread these products evenly over grass areas from ¼” to ½” thick a few times a year. Great results have been found by golf courses in northern Utah that you would recognize where these products have been used on fairways and greens. Many other home owners have found great success with these products.

In areas where overseeding is done during winter months in turf areas (St. George, Utah, Las Vegas and the Phoenix area, for instance), these topdressing products are ideal.

Question: Do you sell topsoil or rock?
Answer: Yes we do. New for this year we mix a rich topsoil as part of our offerings. Our Extreme Topsoil product includes dairy manure compost, 3/8" composted bark and screened topsoil in equal measures. We then add some peat moss for texture and added organics. It is an excellent topsoil and adds needed organic materials to a grow area.

We also have various landscape decorative rocks described here.

Question: Do you sell sawdust?
Answer: Yes. We have sawdust that comes directly from a lumber mill. Some have added sawdust to garden boxes as a soil softener. Perhaps better than sawdust are our soil conditioner products as they are aged, have water retention properties and a lower pH than sawdust.

We sell wood shavings that are "planed" at the lumber mill. Some of our customers use these very clean wood shavings as animal bedding.

Question: Do you sell bark?
Answer: We offer bark and bark mix products for ground cover and as soil amendments. We have bark nuggets, shredded bark and bark from of various species. Our base product has a good deal of bark inherent. This base product serves as the basis for our soil amendments and many of our ground cover products. Additionally, we also bring newer bark from Montana lumber mills that are available as stand alone and as mix products with others. For ground covers, we offer: Premium Ground Cover which is a 2.5” minus wood and bark product. Our Walk-On Bark Mix is our Premium Ground Cover product with added additional bark.

Question: Do you sell colored ground cover?
Answer: Yes. We acquire white wood chips (meaning new wood) from lumber mills. We take these wood chips and grind them to a consistent 2.5" or smaller size and color them with environmentally save colorants (dark brown), made for this purpose. We also offer a more cost effective colored ground cover product made from recycled wood fiber.

Question: Do you offer compost products?
Answer: Yes. We offer mushroom compost, mature poultry compost and mature dairy compost. These compost products are a mixture of our composted bark soil amendment products and mature manure compost providing the best attributes of both substrates used. We have spent tremendous time in negotiating and obtaining the best mature manure compost products in the state. We believe we have accomplished our goals. We offer these products in bulk and in bags under our Designer Soils brand.

Question: Do you offer professional grow mixes?
Answer: Yes. We offer professional grow mixes for greenhouse and nurseries customers. These are specialty mixes that include:, Canadian sphagnum peat, coconut coir, composted bark, perlite and other components, including fertilizers, lime among other things. See our page for more information.

Question: Where does your wood and bark come from?
Answer: We own several million cubic yards of old wood and bark. It is currently buried in the ground in south central Utah, northern Arizona and northern New Mexico. In addition to our own source of material, we also acquire new bark and wood chips from various lumber mills in Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Utah for use in several of our products.

Question: Who do you sell to?
Answer: For our bulk products we primarily are a wholesale supplier to retail nurseries, landscapers, golf courses, municipalities and the like. We also offer bagged produts to nurseries and garden centers in Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and western Texas. For professional growers like greenhouses, we offer a wide range of products in many western states. We also have liquid fertilizer products under our firsTurf brand we sell through distributors and dealers all across the United Statess.

For a nursery in your area that carries our products please contact us via email or phone. Our contact information can be found here

Question: Can I get samples?
Answer: Yes. If you live near our Lindon, Utah facility you can stop by and get samples of all our products. If you are not close to this facility please contact us and we can arrange to get you samples.

Question: I'm a (fill in this space), can and how do I buy from you?
Answer: For bulk products, if you are a landscape contractor or work for a nursery, school district, golf course, sports fields or any number of other kind of entity, yes we will sell to you and pending approval on a credit application will offer terms. We also offer volume discounts on our products, so the more you buy, or commit to buy, from us the deeper discount that we offer.

Many of our landscape contractor customers purchase from a local nursery that carries our products to save on time, freight charges and for convenience. For a nursery near you please call or email us. Contact information is available here.

For professional growers that may have interest in our professional grow mixes we sell direct in some areas and through distribution partners in some areas. Please contact us.

For our various liquid fertilizer products, please contact us for a distributor near you or if you are interested in becoming a distributor.

For our various bagged/retail products we sell through nurseries and garden centers in many western states. Please see here.

Question: How much can a pickup truck hold?
Answer:If you had, for example, a Nissan Titan pickup truck, then we would hold about 1.5 to 2 cubic yards in the bed of this truck. If you had a full size pickup with a standard bed then it would hold about 3 yards.

Question: How many yards of bulk material do I need for my project?
Answer: Consult our product calculator link found on the left side of this page for ground cover calculations. For playground chips it is suggested that you place 6+ inches of playground chips. For our soil amendments the amounts vary. Some amend their garden or flower bed soils with our products in a 1:1 mixture. Some professional growers grow directly in our conditioner mediums (e.g. our Fine Soil Conditioner which is a 1/8"-minus bark humus).

Question: Do you deliver?
Answer: Bulk deliveries are by semi (80-120 yards per truck; depending on the product), small delivery truck (up to 30 yards depending on product; minimum order size may apply) or customers can come and pick up in trailers or trucks from our production plant. Super-sacks and smaller bags are on a case-by-case basis. For delivered products, delivery charges will apply depending on location.

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